Genesis 10:32 meaning and explanation

All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.

Genesis 10:32, Berean Standard Bible

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Genesis 10 closes the table of nations, the Bible's first map of the peoples descended from Noah's three sons. The narrator, writing long after the flood, gathers every clan listed in the chapter and sums them up: these are the families of Shem, Ham and Japheth, arranged by generations and nations.

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